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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Pirate Bay's judge biased: Member of copyright organisations.

202

2

Ubuntu 9.04 released

154

3

"I never said she stole my money" has 7 different meanings depending on the stressed word

154

4

Programmers Don't Like to Code

141

5

An Unschooling Manifesto

135

6

China's Google Maps (zoom out for best effect)

132

7

"PSD is not my favorite file format"

131

8

How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the TIME 100 Poll

127

9

Google Code now supports Mercurial

118

10

How Woz Gets Things Done

115

Top Ask HN

1

Any programmers here that are able to make a living selling their own programs?

86

2

I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions?

64

3

Why no sense of humor?

64

4

Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"?

64

5

62

6

2 karma minimum to lock out spam bots

52

7

How hard do you work?

52

8

Best Python graphing and reporting libraries for web app

46

9

How should business guys go about finding great hackers for a startup?

38

10

When to use MySQL vs PgSQL?

36

Top Show HN

1

Hacking is not Cracking

3

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Ubuntu brings advanced Screen features

102

2

Dropbox (YC S08) Now Effortlessly Syncing Files For 1 Million Members

89

3

Yahoo Quietly Pulls The Plug On Geocities

51

4

Keep it simple, startup

36

5

Apple found guilty of willful patent infringement

33

6

Adeo Ressi Fights “Atrocities Of Investors” With New Class Of Founder Stock

33

7

Steve Jobs On The Value Of Stock Options

29

8

After Being Upstaged By Google, Wolfram Alpha Fires Back With A Leaked Screenshot

23

9

Analysis: How Far Do Projects Launched At Startup Weekends Travel? (Not Very Far)

17

10

IAC Buys UrbanSpoon Based On Good Recommendations

16

News [?]

1

The Management Myth (2006)

113

2

American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all

80

3

How cost-effective is it to make pantry staples from scratch?

64

4

The Portuguese Experiment: Did Drug Decriminalization Work?

64

5

The story behind the rise and fall of America's master math teacher

57

6

The Jaguar and the Fox: Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman (2000)

49

7

Are expensive running shoes a waste of money?

47

8

End the University as We Know It

39

9

Computer program to take on 'Jeopardy'

37

10

Mr Ellison helps himself

34

Scientific publications [?]

1

Introduction to Machine Learning: Class Notes 67577

32

2

Video: Anybots Humanoid Robot Puts Telepresence on Wheels

9

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Fake Facts on Twitter

29

2

Historical Debugging in Visual Studio 2010

13

3

Axum, Microsoft’s Approach to Parallelism

8

4

Successfully Adopting Pair Programming

3

5

Apple Design Awards deadline May 4th

1

6

Using MacPorts: An Open Source Software Collection

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF & Wiki Operator Sues Apple Over Bogus Legal Threats

7

2

Apple taps developers to test new Snow Leopard beta

2

3

Apple and Verizon said in talks for 2010 iPhone

1

4

Microsoft to Launch iPhone Rival on Verizon Early Next Year?

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon EC2 Running IBM Now Available

17

2

AWS in Education

5

3

Amazon EC2 Instances with Websphere Portal starting at only 4600/mo

3

4

Mediasmart: How to Handle a Reporter by a Reporter

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Generalizing from one example

53

2

Cached Procrastination

17

3

The Sound of iPod

13

4

SIAI call for skilled volunteers and potential interns

2

5

Rapidshare Shares Uploader Info with Rights Holders

2

6

RIAA’s Hostile Takeover of the Internet

2

7

Why Pirates Buy More Music and Music Labels Fail

1

Science News [?]

1

Robotic penguins swimming and flying

23

2

Night Owls Stay Alert Longer than Early Birds

21

3

Detecting life on other planets by measuring molecular chirality

16

4

Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research

5

5

Fluorescent puppy is world's first transgenic dog

4

6

Raindrops splash before they hit the ground

4

7

Flickr users make accidental maps

4

8

Is Modern Society Ruining Childhood?

1

9

Lip-reading Computers Can Detect Different Languages

1

10

Sporty software reveals where blurred balls are heading

1

Social [?]

1

Making 'Super Nario Bros.' in Haskell

9

2

Buffett & Gates - Go Back to School

7

3

Making a pop-up dodecahedron.

5

4

Learning from StackOverflow.com

5

5

"Founders at Work" eBook on Sale for $10 today with Apress Daily Deal

3

6

Experimental Game: Shadow Physics

3

7

My School Project: Generating Random Numbers with Kitchen Appliances

3

8

IBM builds machine to compete on Jeopardy

2

9

ASIMO's new artificial intelligence (ASIMO is learning) video

2

10

A Practical Computer Program that Diagnoses Diseases in Actu

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

My objection to extension methods

20

2

Mio: A Tiny Subset of Io in Ruby

19

3

BusinessWeek has named the GitHub cofounders among the best young entrepreneurs of 2009

5

4

Uzbl: a browser that complies with the Unix philosophy

3

5

Split (A/B) Testing Plugin for Rails

3

6

Python That Doesn't Suck: Whitespace-Inactive Python

2

7

Sudont: like sudo, except doesnt do what you tell it to

2

8

Cd-to-root: Easily Cd to the Root of Your Project

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Wikipedia: The 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak

57

2

49

3

23

4

Happy Birthday, Samuel Morse

2

5

Metalink protocol combines traditional and p2p download methods

1

6

Quantum Computer

1

7

Wikipedia's list of sentient fictional planets

1

8

The World's Fastest Computer

1

Blogs [?]

1

What You Can't Say

45

2

Inequality and Risk

21

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]